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FIVE THINGS THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU ABOUT JOSHUA WONG NUMBER FIVE: REJECTED The US is saying loudly and frequently that his detention is political. But here’s what the US is NOT saying: In 2020, Joshua Wong applied to the US and made the argument that his detention was political, that he worked with their guys and deserved immediate political asylum. The US rejected him. They said er… no thank you. Nope. Don’t think so. Bye bye. So that makes their criticisms of Hong Kong right now look rather hollow. . ‘CITY HE LOVES’! On a related note, the Guardian today writes that Joshua Wong should be free quote “to walk the streets of the city he loves”. Guardian writers, please note – Joshua Wong spent his days calling for harm to come to Hong Kong, applauding when it did, and then tried very hard to move to the US. His family sold their Hong Kong apartment for a fat profit, took the money, and moved to Australia. Now, if this was a clickbait video, we’d saying: “Item number one will shock you.” Well, this is NOT a clickbait video, everything in it is factual—but item number one is pretty … interesting… we are going share some genuinely startling information about the groups with which he worked. . COUNTDOWN: NUMBER 4. TRUTH ABOUT ‘DRACONIAN’ LAW Western mainstream media is saying that Joshua Wong was locked up under Hong Kong’s quote “draconian” security law. But you can literally print it out and compare it with the security laws of the US, UK and Australia. All the western ones are significantly harsher. Try it yourself. For example, they all say it bans dissent. Except it doesn’t mention dissent. When I have a minute, I’ll do it as a diagram, to make it really easy. Why are western journalists lying about this? I think mostly due to laziness and confirmation bias, plus a little bit of racism. . 3. WONG CHANGED Joshua Wong changed. He started off as a nice young man quoting the Bible, and declaring that our real enemy was “capitalist hegemony”—remember that? It was a bit of an odd thing to say in Hong Kong, the stock market king of the world. But he mysteriously changed, fell in with bad company from the other side of the Pacific, and he soon turned into a little Chinese MAGA. When the pandemic swept the planet, Wong distributed this meme – it shows the Batman sign in the sky with the phrase “this is how they call people for dinner in Wuhan.” When violent protests in Hong Kong meant that the number of mainland Chinese tourists visiting the city would fall, Joshua Wong tweeted: “And they call that a punishment?” Hong Kong’s economy depends on Chinese tourists, so he was wishing harm on his own community – and on that theme, we come to… . 2. THE VICTIMS None of the news reports about his sentencing explain who his victims were. When someone commits any crime, a key part of the story, surely, is the victim or victims and the harm suffered. We need to look at that—it totally changes the story. Joshua Wong asked for the world (meaning the US and its vassals) to sanction Hong Kong—a hardworking, peaceful city, which has done him no harm at all. - In March of 2019, when the US government sent a delegation to Hong Kong, he talked to them about hitting Hong Kong with sanctions. - On 6 August 2019, Joshua Wong and his buddy Nathan Law asked US government officials to adopt the “Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act” and impose sanctions on Hong Kong as soon as possible. - In September of that year, he flew to America to demand sanctions on Hong Kong. . MISSION SUCCESSFUL He got what he wanted. - On 27 November 2019, the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act was signed into law in the United States. It had the effect of levying sanctions which changed the position of the Hong Kong people with regards to the US. Hong Kong was one of the few places in the world with a positive trade balance with the US – we were fixing the US deficit, we were fixing the US debt problem, we were the good guys, until then. But the Act that Joshua Wong worked so hard to introduce changed this. From then on, we were a community treated with deep suspicion and subjected to constant hostile inspections and reviews. The Hong Kong people were the victims—entrepreneurial businesses were hit, jobs were lost, sales were cancelled, economic growth was damaged. . MORE SANCTIONS There was more. This was followed by the amending of sections 205 and 206 of the US Hong Kong Policy Act. This meant the US would constantly reexamine the question of whether Hong Kong continues to warrant treatment under United States law in the same manner as when British people were in charge. I know, right? White folks in charge. Fine. Non-whites in charge? Gotta check what they’re up to. Again, the Hong Kong people as a whole were the victims—making a living became harder. . INDIVIDUAL SANCTIONS The US government then hammered individual sanctions at Hong Kong people – our civil servants, our police force, our ministers, our judiciary. Many of them lost their bank accounts, lost their credit cards, lost their ability to travel – they could not even buy food for their children. None of them deserved what happened to them. . MORE RESTRICTIVE TRADING LAWS In July of 2020, the US announced a new sanction – all Hong Kong businesses would now be classified under the same restrictive trading laws as those of mainland China. So, for example, the city would no longer be allowed import/ export of listed technology items. This was a massive blow to the city, a small coastal community that depended almost entirely on import and export of goods. . ILLEGAL TO SAY ‘MADE IN HONG KONG’ And that wasn’t all. On August 11, 2020, the US said that all “made in Hong Kong” products must henceforth be labeled as "Made in China". Make no mistake – this was a long list of sanctions that hurt the Hong Kong people. It hurt enterprises, it hurt employees, it hurt young people wanting jobs, it hurt the community as a whole. I could go on, but you get the picture. Joshua Wong and his colleagues did massive harm to the people of Hong Kong—and planned to do more. . 1. SHADOWY ORGANIZATIONS Now we get to number one. Who were the organizations standing behind Joshua Wong? As soon as I mention foreign groups involved in organizing the Hong Kong protests, people tell me that that’s just a conspiracy theory. You find that position taken by numerous western mainstream journalists. I’d been writing op-eds for the New York Times in those early days of the protests, but that paper was harsh on that particular issue, saying that accusations of foreign interference were a "shopworn canard". That’s an archaic phrase meaning a "stale untrue myth". . CHECK THEIR EVIDENCE Here’s another example. “THERE WAS NO FOREIGN INTERFERENCE BEHIND THE PROTESTS,” according to this book by western mainstream journalists Shabani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin. “They were locally driven, planned, and organized.” What’s their evidence for this? Quote: “We covered the protests every weekend and never saw American men in sunglasses hand over wads of cash to demonstrators, contrary to the caricature put out by Beijing.” So that’s it? That’s their investigation?! Hmm, we can’t see American men in sunglasses handing out cash so that means there is no foreign interference! I know, right? . CLEARLY ORGANIZED Contrary to what these people say, the truth is that the protests were clearly organized, meticulously, but covertly, by western anti-China groups. Joshua Wong was strongly associated with several of these western anti-China groups. To avoid this report being too long, I will just highlight a couple of them. He was regularly associated with the Oslo Freedom Forum. That sounds like a peacenik group from Norway, right? Let’s not accept that, let’s act like proper journalists and dig further. We find that it is not in Norway at all, but in the US. Here it is on a maps app. It’s on 5th avenue in New York – one of the swankiest streets in the world. It’s in the Empire State Building. Now we look into its financials and we find it is funded by a large and clearly wealthy group called the Human Rights Foundation Inc, also from the United States. . WE FOUND THEIR TAX RECORDS Now, let’s go to the trouble of investigating the finances of that group. Here are the tax records (see video). We discover some curious things. First, the salaries seem generous for a registered charity, with senior staff getting upwards of a quarter of a million US dollars each, some significantly more. Second, on the contributors list we see just one word “restricted”. No names. So the funding is one or more anonymous rich organizations or individuals. Third, we see an unexpected focus on cryptocurrency, specifically bitcoin. These guys love bitcoin. Reading through it, it appears that their main interests are bitcoin and doing harm to the government of a certain country on the other side of the world. I mean, look at this page. It’s all bitcoin plus “CCP disruption initiative”, to use their own words. Whatever this is, this is clearly your cosy little humanitarian charity. This is a seriously wealthy highly political organization. . EINSTEIN WOULD HATE THIS That’s not all. Who else is associated with Joshua Wong and his colleagues and their protests? There’s the Albert Einstein Institute. Dig into that and we find it has literally nothing to do with the scientist of that name, or physics, or even science. It was founded in 1983 as a US operation collecting and generating strategies to destabilize foreign governments through street protests. The man who ran it, Dr Gene Sharp, had his specialty listed on documents: "coup d'etats" – which is French for "overthrowing governments". Or, to put it into modern American, regime change. . PROTEST ORGANIZERS Here’s Laura Kuenssberg’s BBC Newsnight report on the Oslo Freedom Forum and the Albert Einstein Institute organizing the Hong Kong protests. Kuenssberg: “But the teaching here is to be successful, to topple a government for good. 
You have to be organized, and to plan meticulously. And activists here have been involved in helping to organize the current protests in Hong Kong. Their plan to put thousands of people on the streets of the territory was, in fact, hatched nearly two years ago.” “And Joshua Wong... he's talking to the Hong Kong students now, on a daily, almost hourly basis, and has brought this message to the conference from the streets.” . REGIME CHANGE As you can see, they are in a very nice hotel, eating canapes and drinking champagne. Now here’s a quote from the Albert Einstein Institute. INSTITUTE PROTEST ORGANIZER: “Protesters were taught how to behave during a protest, so how to keep ranks, how to speak to police, how to manage their own movement, how to use marshals within their movement. So these are people who are specially trained. It's also, you know, how to behave when arrested….” REPORTER: “It’s meticulous.” ORGANIZER: “Absolutely.” . ADMISSION The fact is, western protest organizers fully admitted that they spent two years organizing protests in Hong Kong. There’s no reason not to believe them. Now I could go on, I have tons of evidence. But let’s stop here and circle back to Joshua Wong and the recent trial. Some people have done comparisons, and those are interesting. His sentence is rather mild compared to sentences for similar crimes in other nations—although you wouldn’t know it by the media write-ups. Anyway, I want to finish by saying that I am still not happy about this, for two reasons. First, it’s always sad when young people end up in jail. And second, I think the real villains got away scot-free. And those are the mysterious, anonymous super-wealthy funders of western groups that interfere in politics, not just in Hong Kong, but around the world. They are the real problem. They harm everyone. They harm the west and they harm the east. Their activities are enabled, sadly, by the western mainstream media. Be smart. Read widely. Be sceptical. Peace.